Heave ho! Navy to put much more public data into Amazon public cloud

The U.S. Navy plans to forklift a ton of public-facing information from its own data center into Amazon Web Services, according to a Data Center Knowledge report.

Terry Halvorsen, CIO of the Department of the Navy, said that move will save as much as 60 percent compared to managing that data internally. But he also stressed that this is not an all-or-nothing proposition — a nuance that many people in the cloud debate don’t acknowledge.

“There is still a place for the data center non-cloud solution,” Halvorsen said. “Getting that balance right is my mission.”

Secret, non-public data clearly will remain in house — well, as much as that is possible in the age of Edward Snowden.